Pearson - Basic Mathematics through Applications, 4/E

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Presented in a clear and concise style, the Akst/Bragg series teaches by example while expanding understanding with applications that are fully integrated throughout the text and exercise sets. Akst/Bragg’s user-friendly design offers a distinctive side-by-side format that pairs each example and its solution with a corresponding practice exercise. The concise writing style keeps students’ interest and attention by presenting the mathematics with minimal distractions, and the motivating real-world applications demonstrate how integral mathematical understanding is to a variety of disciplines, careers, and everyday situations.

Features

The side-by-side pairing of examples and their solutions with practice exercises encourages active learning from the start. Students complete practice exercises while they follow alongside the step-by-step solution for the example exercises. Students use this format for solving skill exercises and application problems throughout the text.
An early introduction to algebra allows instructors to show students the connection between arithmetic and algebra and helps students grasp key algebraic concepts early in the course.
Applications show how math can be used in a wide range of disciplines, careers, and everyday situations. Throughout the text, students are exposed to relevant applications to help answer the often-asked question “When will I ever use this?”
End-of-Chapter material offers students a wealth of review- and retention-oriented material to reinforce the concepts presented in current and previous chapters.
- Key Concepts and Skills gives students quick reminders of the chapter’s most important elements and provide a one-stop quick review of the chapter material. Each concept/skill is keyed to the section in which it was introduced, and is accompanied by a brief description and example.
- Chapter Review exercises are keyed to the corresponding sections for easy student reference. Numerous mixed application problems complete each of these exercise sets to help students test their overall comprehension of chapter topics.
- Each chapter's Posttest allows students to practice for their classroom test.
NEW! Mixed Practice exercises, located in nearly every section's exercise set, reinforce the student's knowledge of topics and problem solving skills covered in the section.
NEW! Mathematically Speaking exercises help students understand and master mathematical vocabulary.
The NEW Pass the Test CD, included with every new copy of the student text, has been developed to help students succeed in the course. The following resources are specifically designed to help students prepare for tests:
- Video footage of an instructor working through the complete solutions for all Posttest exercises for each chapter
- Vocabulary flashcards
- Additional tips on improving time management skills
- An interactive Spanish glossary
Pretests and Posttests promote individualized learning by helping students gauge their level of understanding of chapter topics both at the beginning and at the end of each chapter.
Chapter Openers introduce the material that lies ahead through interesting applications that grab students’ attention and help them understand the relevance of what they are learning.
Writing exercises help students understand concepts better by asking them to explain those concepts in their own words. Open-ended questions throughout the text give students the opportunity to check their understanding. Students can build on these questions by keeping individual journals. Suggestions for optional journal entries are included in the Annotated Instructor's Edition.
Mindstretchers are engaging activities that incorporate investigation, critical thinking, reasoning, pattern recognition, and writing exercises in one comprehensive problem set, along with corresponding group work and historical connections.
Cultural Notes show how mathematics has evolved in many cultures throughout the world over the centuries. Each chapter features a compelling cultural note that investigates and illustrates the origins of mathematical concepts.
Teaching Tips, found in the Annotated Instructor’s Edition, help instructors with explanations, reminders of previously covered material, and tips on encouraging students to write in a journal.
Student Tips offer helpful reminders and suggestions for understanding certain concepts, skills, or rules, and advice on avoiding common mistakes.
Optional technology tips instruct students on how to use a scientific calculator to perform arithmetic operations. These techniques familiarize students with a wide range of problem-solving methods: mental, paper-and-pencil, and calculator. The side-by-side format is also used in these tips to give students a consistent method of exposition.

New To This Edition

Content Changes:

A new appendix on scientific notation ensures that students have the information they need in an easy to reference place.
Several important topics receive expanded coverage in this revision:
- Increased emphasis on quantitative literacy skills, such as reading and interpreting tables and bar graphs
- Increased emphasis on order of operations problems involving fractions and decimals
- A wider range of exercises on grouping symbols
- Reorganization of the section on adding and subtracting mixed numbers for clearer development
- An appendix introducing scientific notation
- Optional calculator inserts based on the two-line scientific calculator in common use
The Basic Statistics chapter now contains an introduction to basic double-bar graphs, comparison line graphs, frequency tables, and histograms.
An extended discussion of units ensures student comprehension of this topic.

New Features:

Mixed Practice exercises, located in nearly every section's exercise set, reinforce the student's knowledge of topics and problem solving skills covered in the section.
Mathematically Speaking exercises help students understand and master mathematical vocabulary.
An introduction to mathematics study skills at the beginning of the book prepares students to think and learn mathematics, and provides tips to help them get the most from the course.
The Pass the Test CD, included with every new copy of the student text, has been developed to help students succeed in the course. The following resources are specifically designed to help students prepare for tests:
- Video footage of an instructor working through the complete solutions for all Posttest exercises for each chapter
- Vocabulary flashcards
- Additional tips on improving time management skills
- An interactive Spanish glossary
The Math Study Skills Card insert provides students with tips on organization, test preparation, time management, and more.

New and Updated in MyMathLab:

Exercise coverage has been substantially increased over the previous edition.
New interactive “Mathematically Speaking” vocabulary exercises.
All the features on the Pass The Test CD are also available in MyMathLab:

Video footage of an instructor working through the complete solutions for all Posttest problems
Electronic Vocabulary Flashcards
“Tips for Time Management” Video
Interactive Spanish Glossary

A full lecture on video for each section of the text.

New Supplements:

The Worksheets for Classroom or Lab Practice are bound in a student workbook that offers extra practice exercises for every section of the text, with ample space for students to show their work. The worksheets list the learning objectives and key vocabulary terms for every text section and provide extra vocabulary practice.
The updated Video Lectures on CD or DVD offer a short lecture on each section of the texts. Optional English captions are now available on both the CDs and DVDs.
PowerPoint^® slides, present key concepts and definitions from the text, are now available for instructors.
Available in PowerPoint, Active Learning Lecture Slides, can be used with classroom response systems. Several multiple choice questions are available for each section of the book, allowing instructors to quickly assess mastery of material in class.

Table of Contents

Preface

Walk-Through

Index of Applications

1. Whole Numbers

1.1 Introduction to Whole Numbers

1.2 Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers

1.3 Multiplying Whole Numbers

1.4 Dividing Whole Numbers

1.5 Exponents, Order of Operations, and Averages

1.6 More on Solving Word Problems

2. Fractions

2.1 Factors and Prime Numbers

2.2 Introduction to Fractions

2.3 Adding and Subtracting Fractions

2.4 Multiplying and Dividing Fractions

3. Decimals

3.1 Introduction to Decimals

3.2 Adding and Subtracting Decimals

3.3 Multiplying Decimals

3.4 Dividing Decimals

4. Basic Algebra: Solving Simple Equations

4.1 Introduction to Basic Algebra

4.2 Solving Addition and Subtraction Equations

4.3 Solving Multiplication and Division Equations

5. Ratio and Proportion

5.1 Introduction to Ratios

5.2 Solving Proportions

6. Percents

6.1 Introduction to Percents

6.2 Solving Percent Problems

6.3 More on Percents

7. Signed Numbers

7.1 Introduction to Signed Numbers

7.2 Adding Signed Numbers

7.3 Subtracting Signed Numbers

7.4 Multiplying Signed Numbers

7.5 Dividing Signed Numbers

8. Basic Statistics

8.1 Introduction to Basic Statistics

8.2 Tables and Graphs

9. More on Algebra

9.1 Solving Equations

9.2 More on Solving Equations

9.3 Using Formulas

10. Measurement and Units

10.1 U.S. Customary Units

10.2 Metric Units and Metric/U.S. Customary Unit Conversions

11. Basic Geometry

11.1 Introduction to Basic Geometry

11.2 Perimeter and Circumference

11.3 Area

11.4 Volume

11.5 Similar Triangles

11.6 Square Roots and the Pythagorean Theorem

Scientific Notation Appendix

Answers

Glossary

Index

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Basic Mathematics (Mathematics)

Previous Edition(s)

Basic Mathematics through Applications, 3/E
Akst & Bragg
©2005 | Pearson | Paper; 624 pp | Out of Print
ISBN-10: 0321228170 | ISBN-13: 9780321228178
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Throughout this text, motivating real-world applications, examples, and exercises demonstrate how integral mathematical understanding is to student mastery in other disciplines, a variety of occupations, and everyday situations. A distinctive side-by-side format, pairing each example with a corresponding practice exercise, encourages students to get actively involved in the mathematical content from the start. Unique Mindstretchers target different levels and types of student understanding in one comprehensive problem set per section. Mindstretchers incorporate related investigation, critical thinking, reasoning, and pattern recognition exercises along with corresponding group work and historical connections. To show how mathematics has evolved over the centuries, in many cultures, and throughout the world, each chapter features a compelling Cultural Note that investigates and illustrates the origins of mathematical concepts. Diverse topics include art, music, the evolution of digit notation, and the ancient practice of using a scale to find an unknown weight.
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Basic College Mathematics through Applications, 5/E
Akst & Bragg
©2013 | Pearson | Paper; 600 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321733398 | ISBN-13: 9780321733399
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The Akst/Bragg series’ success is built around clear and concise writing, a side-by-side “teach by example” approach, and integrated applications throughout that help students achieve a conceptual understanding. The user-friendly design offers a distinctive side-by-side format that pairs examples and their solutions with corresponding practice exercises. Students understand from the very beginning that doing math is an essential part of learning it. Motivational, real-world applications demonstrate how integral mathematical understanding is to a variety of disciplines, careers, and everyday situations.
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Geoffrey Akst and Sadie Bragg have worked together for many years as professors of mathematics at Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York. They met as graduate students at Teachers College, Columbia University, where they were both working on degrees in the teaching of college mathematics. The emphasis on applications in their texts reflects a concern they share for helping students understand why the topics to be studied are useful. Dr. Akst for years has begun his classes with the payoff question: why is this material worth learning? A native New Yorker, he enjoys surfing the Web, listening to good music, and traveling to exciting places. Dr. Bragg, who began her career in math education as a high school geometry teacher, credits her teachers with inspiring her love for mathematics and an appreciation of its utility. A transplanted Virginian, she spends her time with her family and her beautiful granddaughter, Maya.

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MathXL -- Instant Access -- for Basic Mathematics through Applications, 4/E
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Instructor's Solutions Manual for Basic Mathematics through Applications, 4/E
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Printable Test Bank for Basic Mathematics through Applications, 4/E
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